https://aviospace.org/concorde-faster-than-sound-environmental-cost/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:35:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://aviospace.org/concorde-faster-than-sound-environmental-cost/#comment-6438 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:39:19 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=4588#comment-6438 […] to the C-141, and this resulted in the accusation, like the one seen with the Tupolev Tu-144 and the Concorde that the Il-76 was a Western ripoff. While the Tu-144 was called a Soviet Concorde or Concordski, […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/concorde-faster-than-sound-environmental-cost/#comment-6405 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:01:28 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=4588#comment-6405 […] noise affects communities near the airport where they operate. We all know that the supersonic Concorde was a fuel-guzzler, and a producer of an extraordinary amount of noise. Current aircraft, in comparison, produce a low […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/concorde-faster-than-sound-environmental-cost/#comment-6378 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:33:43 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=4588#comment-6378 […] Concorde, the fastest commercial plane, could maintain Mach speed up to 2.04 (2,170 km/hr, 1350 mph). Concorde was also the second supersonic airliner in the world, falling just short of the Tupolev Tu-144, which was also dubbed the Soviet Concorde. However, the Concorde was retired in 2003, and the Tu-144, a lot earlier. Commercial aircraft operate at speeds less than that of sound. Besides commercial ones, there are cargo aircraft like the amazingly shaped Airbus Beluga, designed with transport in mind, but don’t fly as fast as commercial airliners. But which are the ten fastest aircraft in the world? Let’s find out.  […]

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